Toggle navigation
Toggle navigation
Home
DCUM Forums
Nanny Forums
Events
About DCUM
Advertising
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
FAQs and Guidelines
Privacy Policy
Your current identity is: Anonymous
Login
Preview
Subject:
Forum Index
»
Eldercare
Reply to "What were the benefits of going on hospice?"
Subject:
Emoticons
More smilies
Text Color:
Default
Dark Red
Red
Orange
Brown
Yellow
Green
Olive
Cyan
Blue
Dark Blue
Violet
White
Black
Font:
Very Small
Small
Normal
Big
Giant
Close Marks
[quote=Anonymous]People here are mixing up going into a hospice facility with the Medicare specific transition to hospice status. My FIL was in a hospice facility and it was very soothing for him the only issue was an issue over whether he could still get insulin - the hospice facilities can be very black and white about the no meds but pain killer rules that are not good in certain situations. My father was on the Medicare hospice status and it was awful. Basically you get no medical care whatso ever except a place that Medicare contracts for which sends a nurse to you 2x a week and you are on your own (at least that was where we wound up). There was zero benefit to my dad and it was very stressful not having access to a doctor as he was dying to make sure we were making him as comfortable as possible - through seizures, temperature and breathing issues etc.[/quote]
Options
Disable HTML in this message
Disable BB Code in this message
Disable smilies in this message
Review message
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
